Day 5 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! More manuscript meetings with awesome writers, a Seafood Shanty lunch by the Edgartown docks, some sightseeing, ending with the first day of participant readings. So many moving poems and stories and essays. My heart left the reading full. Overflowing in fact.
Day 4 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing September Edition! I met with awesome writers all day for manuscript consultations, then ate seafood at Menemsha Beach with fellow faculty and we clapped when the sun set. *sarcasm* It’s a sort of life, I guess.
Day 3 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! I taught two craft/generative classes: one on broken things & anaphora and one on the hermit crab essay. Then in the evening we enjoyed wonderful readings by fellow faculty Hannah Bae and Vogue Robinson! Then Indian food at Indigo!
Day 2 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing… No teaching for me today, but I read my poetry alongside the wonderful fiction writer Joy Deva Baglio! Thanks so much to all the awesome supportive people in the audience tonight! Golly that was a warm and welcoming time tonight!
With a glass of elderflower wine and a skol, Director Alexander Weinstein opens the third week of the 2026 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! My 14th year teaching here. My second week of this year’s three sessions. Yip-a-dang! Here’s to a great week of writing on the Vineyard!
Announcing my FALL 2026 private creative writing workshops in poetry and creative nonfiction!
On Wednesdays I’ll be teaching my poetry workshop, “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” beginning September 30.
On Thursdays I’ll be teaching my creative nonfiction workshop, “Introduction to the Lyric Essay” beginning October 1.
Both workshops run for 6 classes, from 6-8 PM Eastern Time, via Zoom. Classes can be recorded for you to watch later if you are absent.
Earlybird Discounted Registration just opened and closes Sunday August 23.
Regular Registration will close Monday September 21.
Register early as these classes usually fill up!
See my website https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/ for more info and to register.
So sweet and wonderful to read my poetry last week alongside so many lovely people for the Seneca Review, at Two Goats Brewing on the shore of Seneca Lake!
What a warm and delightful experience reading my poetry on Friday alongside the wonderful Suzanne Frischkorn for St. David’s Rhythm & Rhyme in Fayetteville, NY. Thank you to Laura Hannett for inviting me and thank you to all the kind folks who came!
Central New York Friends! I have another reading coming up. This one for the Seneca Review where I am an Editorial Assistant! It’s July 22 at the Two Goats Brewery in the Finger Lakes, on a gorgeous hill overlooking Seneca Lake. Come join me and a bunch of awesome readers and celebrate the release of the new issue of the Seneca Review.
Central New York friends! I’m reading poetry Friday July 17 for St. David’s new Rhythm & Rhyme series, alongside the wonderful poet Suzanne Frischkorn and pianist Logan Blackman. Come on by!